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No, it's just complaining about the title being a harmless pun on the term "Fashion Police." Some people hate humor and ambiguity. Sumptuary laws were a tool o
by AlbertCory 3y ago
No, it's just complaining about the title being a harmless pun on the term "Fashion Police." Some people hate humor and ambiguity.
Sumptuary laws were a tool of the upper classes to preserve their distinction from the lower classes.
- ggm 3y agoIs there no basis for arguing that it also had economic benefits? Cloth until mechanisation was a hugely expensive business, in man/woman power, time. Basically, Sumptuary laws may well have done what you say, but I bet that isn't all they did. "The staple" was a highly regulated business for export of raw wool and cloth from England to the continent. Dying, weaving is at the foundation of much of the medieval trade networks. Sumpturary laws would go directly to the economics of fabric as well as the social structural policing. Paying sumptuary fines probably also played here, because coin was scarce oftentimes, and taxation complex. By all means wear the forbidden colours, for a small fee.